Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances ... that no human wisdom can calculate the end.
In the early ages of the world, according to the Scripture chronology there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion. Common Sense (1776)